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| Entry | 1 Crateva
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| Part of speech | 2 noun |
| Explanations in English |
3 [2.515] Pantropical genus with 10 species; 4 to 6 endemic Malagasy subspecies. Crateva is distributed in humid evergreen forest, as well as dry deciduous forest from sea level to 1,500 m elevation. It can be recognized by its large flowers with free sepals and distinctly clawed petals much longer than the sepals, and large, fleshy to woody, globose to ellipsoid fruits. |
| Vocabulary | 4 Botany: scientific genera |
| Analogs | 5 alakamisy |
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| Updated on 2025/07/29 |
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